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This SAMHSA guide provides information on student assistance resources available for school leaders and administrators and tips on how they can use these resources in their schools.

Education | Substance Use Prevention

This SAMHSA fact sheet provides parents, caregivers, and teachers with strategies for helping children manage their stress during an infectious disease outbreak. It describes potential reactions among youth and the support adults can provide to help them.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Emergency Planning/Disaster Preparedness | Parent Skills Training

This SAMHSA Advisory reviews the evidence on prescription stimulant misuse among youth and young adults. It establishes prescription stimulant misuse as a public health problem, identifies associated risk and protective factors, and provides programs and action steps for stakeholders to prevent m...

Substance Use Prevention

This SAMHSA fact sheet for teens provides facts about opioids. It describes short- and long-term effects of opioid use, lists signs of opioid use, and helps to dispel common myths about opioids.

Opioid Use | Substance Use Prevention

SAMHSA announces the release of a new report, Helping Children and Youth Who Have Traumatic Experiences, which shows that nearly half of the nation’s children have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. This framework enhances care coordination across multiple systems that wo...

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Trauma Informed/Response

The SBDI Toolkit provides a step-by-step guide for implementing prevention strategies and action steps that schools can implement to effectively prevent and manage emotional-behavioral crises among students. 

School Violence

Parents and school personnel can help children feel safe by establishing a sense of normalcy and security and talking with them about their fears after acts of violence, particularly in schools.

School Violence

Lessons learned from school emergencies highlight the importance of preparing school officials and first responders to implement emergency operations plans.

School Violence

The following resources provide information about the opioid crisis and its impact on children and families; youth focused substance abuse treatment and prevention strategies; and approaches to address the opioid epidemic as a public health crisis.

Opioid Use

Mass violence events expose survivors and witnesses to trauma, whether they experience the event in person, within the community, or through the media.

Community Violence | School Violence

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